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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) For a religious ritual.
(b) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.
(c) To drive off the white men.
(d) To clear an area to build houses on.

2. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?
(a) To gather firewood.
(b) To find a new clan to join.
(c) To fight white men.
(d) To become men.

3. How are black servants paid?
(a) With money.
(b) With rice.
(c) With warm blankets.
(d) They are not paid with anything.

4. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In widened-out rabbit burrows.
(b) In small mud huts.
(c) In shelters made from branches and bark.
(d) In brick houses.

5. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?
(a) They do not understand it and often do a bad job.
(b) They are angered by it, and plot revenge.
(c) They see it as exploitation.
(d) They see it as a form of kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Canning Stock Route?

2. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

3. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

4. How do the white workers react to the violence?

5. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?

(see the answer key)

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